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Date Permissions Signed
5-15-2015
Date of Award
Spring 2015
Document Type
Masters Thesis (Campus-Only Access)
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
English
First Advisor
Paola, Suzanne
Second Advisor
Miller, Brenda, 1959-
Third Advisor
Mahoney, Kristin Mary
Abstract
Surface Tension is an exploratory spiritual autobiography told through flash nonfiction and lyric essays in order to disrupt traditional chronological narratives of the spiritual self. Compressed poetic reflections on faith and family unfold in spiraling, imagistic fragments, which explore the complex interactions between photographs and memory and demonstrate the confluence of landscape and past. Water resonates as a symbol throughout, offering a lexicon for establishing the theological interconnectedness of body and landscape with spirituality.
Type
Text
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25710/0r11-1w57
Publisher
Western Washington University
OCLC Number
910250768
Subject – LCSH
Spirituality--Prose
Format
application/pdf
Genre/Form
masters theses
Language
English
Rights
Copying of this document in whole or in part is allowable only for scholarly purposes. It is understood, however, that any copying or publication of this thesis for commercial purposes, or for financial gain, shall not be allowed without the author's written permission.
Recommended Citation
Teer, Kaitlyn, "Surface Tension" (2015). WWU Graduate School Collection. 418.
https://cedar.wwu.edu/wwuet/418